Monday 20th July 1931
From a newspaper cutting:
Blue Stone At Salisbury Museum. Supposed Link With Stonehenge
The Blue Stone from Bowls Barrow, between Heytesbury and Imber, about 14 miles due east of Stonehenge, is now in the garden of the Salisbury, South Wilts and Blackmore Museum, where it may be seen on application. Standing about three feet high, the stone of spotted dolerite from Wales is identical with some of the “foreign†stones at Stonehenge. Bowls Barrow was opened in 1801 by the late Mr. William Cunnington. The barrow was 150ft. long, 91ft. Wide, 10½ft. high. It contained, in addition to this stone, a pavement of flints and lumps of sarsen. This stone and nine sarsens were taken by Mr. Cunnington to his house at Heytesbury, and the blue stone was removed to the garden of Heytesbury House about 1863. Bowls Barrow is a long barrow of the Neolithic period, and it shows that these stones were being moved up from Wales in that  period. It is supposed to have a connection with Stonehenge. It must be assumed that the bringing of the stones to Wiltshire was only undertaken on account of some special value attached to them at the time; that it is in the highest degree improbable that the undertaking was repeated at different periods and that their acquisition can only be regarded as one event.